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1115-1139

  • Thought of created things is an enemy to this sweet (waking) sleep: until his (any one's) thought is asleep, his throat is shut. 1115
  • دشمن این خواب خوش شد فکر خلق ** تا نخسپد فکرتش بستست حلق

  • A (mystical) bewilderment is needed to sweep (such) thought away: bewilderment devours (all) thought and recollection.
  • حیرتی باید که روبد فکر را ** خورده حیرت فکر را و ذکر را

  • The more perfect he is in (worldly) science, the more backward he is in reality and the more forward in appearance.
  • هر که کاملتر بود او در هنر ** او بمعنی پس بصورت پیشتر

  • He (God) hath said, “(Verily, to Him we are) returning”; and the return is in the same wise as a herd turns back and goes home.
  • راجعون گفت و رجوع این سان بود ** که گله وا گردد و خانه رود

  • When the herd has turned back from (after) going down to water, the goat that was the leader (now) falls behind (becomes the hindmost),
  • چونک واگردید گله از ورود ** پس فتد آن بز که پیش آهنگ بود

  • And the lame hindmost goat is now in front: the return caused the faces to laugh of them that were frowning (before). 1120
  • پیش افتد آن بز لنگ پسین ** اضحک الرجعی وجوه العابسین

  • How did this party (the prophets and saints) become lame and give up glory and purchase ignominy in vain?
  • از گزافه کی شدند این قوم لنگ ** فخر را دادند و بخریدند ننگ

  • This party go on the pilgrimage (to Reality) with broken legs, (because) there is a secret way from straitness to ease.
  • پا شکسته می‌روند این قوم حج ** از حرج راهیست پنهان تا فرج

  • This company washed their hearts (clean) of (the exoteric) kinds of knowledge, because this knowledge does not know that Way.
  • دل ز دانشها بشستند این فریق ** زانک این دانش نداند آن طریق

  • (In order to tread this Way) one needs a knowledge whereof the root is Yonder, inasmuch as every branch is a guide to its root.
  • دانشی باید که اصلش زان سرست ** زانک هر فرعی به اصلش رهبرست

  • How should every wing fly across the breadth of the Sea? (Only) the esoteric knowledge will bear (thee) to the Presence (of God). 1125
  • هر پری بر عرض دریا کی پرد ** تا لدن علم لدنی می‌برد

  • Why, then, should you teach a man the knowledge of which it behoves him to purify his breast?
  • پس چرا علمی بیاموزی به مرد ** کش بباید سینه را زان پاک کرد

  • Therefore do not seek to be in front: be lame on this side, and be the leader at the moment of return.
  • پس مجو پیشی ازین سر لنگ باش ** وقت وا گشتن تو پیش آهنگ باش

  • O clever one, be thou (according to the Prophet's saying, “We are) the hindmost and the foremost”: the fresh fruit is prior to the tree.
  • آخرون السابقون باش ای ظریف ** بر شجر سابق بود میوه‌ی طریف

  • Although the fruit comes last into being, it is the first, because it was the object.
  • گرچه میوه آخر آید در وجود ** اولست او زانک او مقصود بود

  • Say, like the angels, “We have no knowledge,” to the end that “Thou hast taught us” may take thy hand (come to thy aid). 1130
  • چون ملایک گوی لا علم لنا ** تا بگیرد دست تو علمتنا

  • If in this school thou dost not know the alphabet, (yet) thou art filled, like Ahmad (Mohammed), with the light of Reason.
  • گر درین مکتب ندانی تو هجا ** همچو احمد پری از نور حجی

  • If thou art not famous in the world, (yet) thou art not lost: God knoweth best concerning His servants.
  • گر نباشی نامدار اندر بلاد ** گم نه‌ای الله اعلم بالعباد

  • A treasure of gold is (hidden), for safety's sake, in a desolate spot that is not well-known.
  • اندر آن ویران که آن معروف نیست ** از برای حفظ گنجینه‌ی زریست

  • How should they deposit the treasure in a well-known place? On this account it is said, “Joy is (hidden) beneath sorrow.”
  • موضع معروف کی بنهند گنج ** زین قبل آمد فرج در زیر رنج

  • Here the mind may bring (suggest) many difficulties, but a good beast will break the tether. 1135
  • خاطر آرد بس شکال اینجا ولیک ** بسکلد اشکال را استور نیک

  • His (God's) love is a fire that consumes difficulties: the daylight sweeps away every phantom.
  • هست عشقش آتشی اشکال‌سوز ** هر خیالی را بروبد نور روز

  • O thou with whom He is pleased, seek the answer from the same quarter from which this question came to thee.
  • هم از آن سو جو جواب ای مرتضا ** کین سال آمد از آن سو مر ترا

  • The cornerless corner of the heart is a King's highway: the radiance that is neither of the east nor of the west is (derived) from a Moon.
  • گوشه‌ی بی گوشه‌ی دل شه‌رهیست ** تاب لا شرقی و لا غرب از مهیست

  • Why on this side and on that, like a beggar, O mountain of Reality, art thou seeking the echo?
  • تو ازین سو و از آن سو چون گدا ** ای که معنی چه می‌جویی صدا